The Schinzel–Zassenhaus conjecture on houses of algebraic integers

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Let α\alpha be an algebraic integer of degree dd, with conjugates α=α1,…,αd\alpha=\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_d. Its house is \houseα=max⁡1≤i≤d∣αi∣\house{\alpha}=\max_{1\leq i\leq d}|\alpha_i|. An algebraic integer is a root of unity exactly when its house is 11. Schinzel–Zassenhaus conjecture. There is a constant c>0c>0 such that, if α\alpha is not a root of unity, then

\houseα≥1+cd.\house{\alpha}\geq 1+\frac{c}{d}.

This conjecture asks for a uniform lower bound on how close the house of a noncyclotomic algebraic integer can be to 11. The source attributes it to Schinzel and Zassenhaus; no resolution is given here.

References

Primary source

Dragan Stankov, “The reciprocal algebraic integers having small houses”, arXiv:1811.01295 (2019).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1806.06424, arXiv:1610.04278.

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